Help:Interwiki linking
Interwiki linking (linking to an article on Wikipedia, a Fandom wiki, or other wiki in general) is medium-complicated, but not that hard to learn.
Linking to Wikipedia
To link to the Wikipedia article "Trains" type; [[Wikipedia:Trains]]
As with regular links, link text can be provided after a pipe character; [[Wikipedia:Trains|Trains on Wikipedia]]
[[W:Trains]] or {{W|Trains}} can also be used as shorter alternatives.
Linking to Fandom articles
To link to a Fandom article, such as the article "Supergate" on the "Stargate" Fandom wiki, use this format; [[Fandom:stargate:Supergate]]
(Many existing instances instead use the prefix "Wikia:" for this, as this was Fandom's previous name. While both link types will point to the same page, the "Wikia:" interwiki link has been deprecated and we encourage the use of "Fandom:" in its place when adding new links going forward.)
Several sites on Fandom, such as Memory Alpha, have their own domain and can be linked to using a similar pattern to non-Fandom wikis: [[MemoryAlpha:James T. Kirk]]:
Linking to other wikis
Other sites of relevance to TFWiki can be linked to:
- TVTropes can be linked to using links of the form [[tvtropes:Main/DullSurprise|Dull Surprise]] which produces a link that looks like this:
Dull Surprise. - IMDB can be linked to using links of the form [[imdb:tt0418279|Transformers (2007)]] which produces a link that looks like this:
Transformers (2007).
Linking from Wikipedia
When editing pages on Wikipedia, links to TFWiki can be made using a similar syntax. For instance linking to our Generation 1 Optimus Prime article from a Wikipedia article can be done as follows:
- [[TFWiki:Optimus Prime (G1)]]
